An Evening with Siân Hughes
Join Booker longlisted author Siân Hughes for an evening of exploration around her remarkable new novel, No Such Thing As Monday.
Siân will explore her work, her writing process, and the unforgettable characters she creates. Expect thoughtful conversation, laughter, and a glimpse into the making of one of the year’s most acclaimed novels, hosted by our own Matt.
Every book and ticket will include a copy of No Such Thing As Monday, which Siân will sign and dedicate on the day.
About No Such Thing As Monday
Steffie spends her days working in a dry cleaner’s, trying to scrub the world clean one garment at a time. But no matter how spotless the clothes, she can’t rid herself of the guilt and grime she feels inside.
Haunted by what happened to her sister when they were children, large fragments of which she can’t fully remember, Steffie is stuck in a loop of self-destruction, defiance, and shame.
When her violent, bullying father dies suddenly, it sparks a reckoning that cracks open her past. What follows is an unexpectedly redemptive journey of a woman trying to piece herself together in a world that failed to make space for her.
Raw, exhilarating, and full of heart, No Such Thing As Monday confirms Sian Hughes as a masterful chronicler of life lived on the edge, and people at their most vulnerable.
About Siân Hughes
Siân Hughes is a writer who grew up in a small village in Cheshire where Pearl is set.
Her first collection of poetry The Missing (Salt, 2009) was a Poetry Society Recommendation, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis and the Aldeburgh prizes, and won the Seamus Heaney Award. The collection included the elegy ‘The Send-Off’ which won the 2006 Arvon International Poetry Competition.
Siân lives in Cheshire with her son, where she owns and runs the independent bookshop Magpie Books. Her first novel Pearl was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023.